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Y W. R RAY.

STUFHNG BOX TAKE-UP.

APPLICATION FILED 050.14. 1911.

WITNESS $22M] Kw] K Patented Dec. 23,1919.

IN VEN TOR.

WiZZz am 1515a ATTORNE Y5 AlglplicailiOn filed December 1 2-, 191?. Serial lilo.

TooZZ- whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM R. RAY, a

citizen of the United States, residing in. the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shilling-Box Tal ie-Ups, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a taking up de vice for stulling hoxes In the installation of pumps and like inachinery, it often happens that the stuiling boxes employed assume such positions that it i practically impossible and almost all waysv inconvenient to reach the screws or nuts by which the glands are tightened. This naturally, results in general neglect, hence permitting rapid wear and leaking boxes.

One of the objects of the present invention. is to provide an attachment which may be applied to any stuiiing box and which will permit it to be readily tightened or even removed, if necessary, to repack the box. Further objects will hereinafter appear.

The invention consists of the 'parts and the construction and combination oi parts as hereinafter more fully descrihedi fend reached. when it is desired to take up on the packing gland or removeit when. it 18 necessary to repeal; the box. The length of the rods also permits a more or less yielding claimed, having reference to the accompanyj ing drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pump, showing the application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view oi the same. Referring, to the drawings in. detail, A. indicates a casin of a standard form of gear pump, 2 a smiling box, 3 a packing gland L a driving shalt extending therethrough, and 5 a pump head which forms a closure for the pump chamber in which the gears are mounted.

Formed on the head on each side thereof is a lug '6, and extending through each log is a rod 7, one end of which is inclined and,

hook-shaped to engage the perforated flange of the packing gland, While the oppositeend is threaded to receive a not 8. The rods having the hook-shaped ends here shown are employed. in preference to the screws and movement, as far i s the gland proper is concerned, thereby preventing this from hinding' on the shaft and causing unnecessary we r. p i While the take-up or hook-shaped. tight ening rods are here shown as applied to a gear pump, it is obvious that they may he employed in connection with any other standard form of pump or machine requiring a stuillng p The materials and finish oli the several parts of the device may hesuch as the experience and judgment of themanufaoturer may dictate. s r

I wish itun derstood that various changes in form, proportions and minor details of construction may he resorted to within the scope of the appended claims and that I do not l v sh to l mit myself to the spec1fio design and construction here shown.

-losing disposed at the opposite end of the casing, perforated lugs on the head, a pair 'oi'rods having outer ends overlying the easing and extending through the lug perforations and havingnuts thereon, the inner end portions of: the rods being inclined and extending toward each other and over the shaft in spaced relation thereto and having hook terminals engaged in the gland perforations, said rods being yicldable so as to allow moveinent of the gland relative to the shaft to prevent-binding oi the gland on the shaft.

2. In combination with a pump casing having a head on one end, a driving shaft and a stuiling ho with a perforated packing gland mounted on said shaft, the gland being disposed at the opposite end of the casing, erforited lugs on the head, a pair of rods iaving outer ends overlying the easing and extending through the lug perforaill) . Having thus described my invention, what Mons and bur/i1 nut-s flw wil, the inner and.

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